Almost a year ago a surge of anger run almost every Indian’s mind and here we are, a year after Mumbai terrorist attack, already ready to forget every thing at its first anniversary. After media will remind everybody, few will bother to light candles and mumble few words while for rest of us it will be a nightmare which never happened.
For almost a week, India has never felt so helpless and vulnerable. Ten people took whole India ransom at the point of gun. Apart from manslaughter and mental scar, it brought unrepairable damage to Indian stature in the world community. Many brave men lost their life fighting those terrorist while deputy chief minister of the state was busy giving statement “Bade shahron mein aise ek adh hadse hote rahte hain”. I remember tension among the public was so high that Government was on its toes pretending to take strict and strategic action for future. Among many things promised, sacking of Shivraj Patil is the only visible difference which seemed to be actioned. But is that enough? Then chief minister of Maharashtra Vilasrao Deshmukh is a Union minister now and two weeks before 26/11 anniversary, R. R. Patil is reinstated as home minister of Maharashtra while martyr Hemant Karkare’s bullet proof vest investigation seems to reached an impasse after bullet proof vest went missing. How conveniently politicians can make break promise, while people like Karkare foolishly romantic in the idea of patriotism, without fear sacrifices their lives. Many people lost their lives just because our Government did not care. Bullet proof vests were substandard and repeated request of police reinforcement help was not actioned.
I remember the rage in media, public and everyone united, shouting “NO MORE of this shit”. I called my mother on 28th and asked her how is atmosphere in India. She said “Everybody is shocked and full of anger. If Government does not do anything, there will be a riot.” I wonder what happened what happened to that anger. With time that anger turned into fear, fear to go out, fear of bomb blast in trains and fear of our lives. We are OK as long as it is not us. When will we care as a nation? Do we need another attack to wake us up again? How dumb we are that we are selecting same rubbish people again to represent us in governing bodies. We need quality Government which care about us and for that we as a nation have to care about whom we are selecting. How come irresponsible man like Shivraj Patil could stay that long as home minister of India even after his repeated failures? Why we are always back stabbed every time we extend our hand for friendship to Pakistan and still we do not learn from it? Is it enough to just remember martyrs of Kargil and Mumbai attack for a couple of years and then forget about them? Just burning candles is not enough for somebody’s memory and their families. Problem needs to be solved.
In the memory of Shri. Hemant Karkare, Shri. Ashok Kamte, Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan and many more.
